Scaling equations for a biopolymer in salt solution

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 99, Issue 26, 2007, Pages

  Geissler, Erik ^a   Hecht, Anne Marie ^a   Horkay, Ferenc ^b  

^a LIPHY   (France)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC LIGHT SCATTERING; POLYELECTROLYTES; POSITIVE IONS; SALTS; SOLUTIONS; THERMODYNAMICS;

MONOVALENT AND DIVALENT CATIONS; OSMOTIC COMPRESSIBILITY; SALT SOLUTION; SCALING EQUATIONS;

BIOPOLYMERS;

EID: 37649018205     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.267801     Document Type: Article

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